Democratic Party of Northern Cyprus

The Democratic Party is a conservative political party in Northern Cyprus that was founded in 1992. The party was founded as a breakaway of the National Unity Party of Northern Cyprus, and it supported Turkish nationalism and conservative views. In 2017, the party held 5/50 Parliament seats and 1/28 municipalities, and it positioned itself as a center-right party in order to oppose the right-wing National Unity Party and be able to ally with the social democratic Republican Turkish Party in 2013.